140516-N-AG657-146 MANZANILLO, Mexico (May 16, 2014) Electronics Technician 2nd Class Matthew Hoffman stands port-side watch aboard the Oliver Hazard Perry-class guided-missile frigate USS Vandegrift (FFG 48) during transit out of the port in Manzanillo, Mexico. Vandegrift, on her last deployment before a scheduled decommissioning in March 2015, will play in integral part in the counter-transnational organized crime mission, Operation Martillo, a , European, and Western Hemisphere partner-nation effort targeting illicit trafficking routes in the costal waters in Central America. ( Na


140516-N-AG657-146 MANZANILLO, Mexico (May 16, 2014) Electronics Technician 2nd Class Matthew Hoffman stands port-side watch aboard the Oliver Hazard Perry-class guided-missile frigate USS Vandegrift (FFG 48) during transit out of the port in Manzanillo, Mexico. Vandegrift, on her last deployment before a scheduled decommissioning in March 2015, will play in integral part in the counter-transnational organized crime mission, Operation Martillo, a , European, and Western Hemisphere partner-nation effort targeting illicit trafficking routes in the costal waters in Central America. ( Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Cory Booth/Released) USS Vandegrift in Mexico 140516-N-AG657-146


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